In my company, we continue to experiment and to be better. In order to reach out to a larger pool of Singaporeans, we have started an apprenticeship programme and interviewed polytechnic graduates who are, rightly or wrongly, perceived to be more street-smart and hungrier.

The apprenticeship is one year and if they survive that year, they go straight to the 2 1/2-year graduate programme like the others. There is a lot of interest in this programme which we just started - it is too early to judge if it will succeed, but we will be tweaking the system as we get feedback.



Above article from Tan Chin Hwee, Chief Executive Officer in Asia-Pacific for Trafigura Group